Broken links on http://squeakvm.org/mac/ & Latest official Squeak Mac VM

> On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 08:35:25PM +0200, Bernhard Pieber wrote:
>>
>> Dear VM maintainers,
>>
>> It seems that the links to the latest builds of the Mac VM for Squeak on
>> http://squeakvm.org/mac/ are broken. I wonder where I can get the latest
>> official release of the Squeak Mac VM? The latest release in
>> http://squeakvm.org/mac/release/ is 5.7.4.1 from March 2011.
>>
>
> Esteban Lorenzano is the official maintainer of the Mac VM. Esteban, can
> you provide status on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>

> Hi,
>
> sorry for the delayed answer.
>
> the problem is that pharo changed his servers and I forget to update the links :(
> ... and I tried to fix it but I failed to connect to the server :_(
>
> Anyway this is a good excuse to have a discussion about the VMs, its flavors and maintainability.
>
> is obvious that since I came to work at pharo team, I concentrated more efforts in making the pharo flavor work... but in any case I've ensured that all the changes I made to the VM are also accessible to everybody that is willing to take it (I worked specially in the building process and in the plugins, the main code is still "vanilla-cog" :)
> That's why the CMakeMaker building process has also configurations for Cog, CogMT and StackVM, all correctly maintained.
> Extend it to make others (Squeak, Cuis, etc.) is a work of some minutes if desired.
>
> In other side, the Squeak community has choose to bless the builds from Eliot as their cannon and in general did not took my work (prove of that is that those links are broken since months and nobody realized until now).
> (I'm not complaining, I'm perfectly ok with that... I'm just pointing it).
>
> I think the overall "maintainer" job has changed last years:
>
> - currently we have a "general maintainer" (Eliot) who builds for the three platforms.
> - we also have continuous integration processes who does an important part of the previous boring work (pharo has one and squeak too AFAIK but I couldn't find the link).
>
> In that scenario, there is no much work to do thankfully :)
>
> Anyway, I would like to propose to whoever has the access to the squeakvm.org to add directly links to:
>
> - http://www.mirandabanda.org/files/Cog/VM
> eliot could add a "current" link.
> - http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharo
> - http://files.pharo.org/vm/pharoS
> - and link to the place where squeak stores his built VMs.
>
> that will easy everything, I think.
>
> cheers,
> Esteban
>
>
> On Aug 11, 2013, at 3:51 AM, David T. Lewis <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 08:35:25PM +0200, Bernhard Pieber wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear VM maintainers,
> >>
> >> It seems that the links to the latest builds of the Mac VM for Squeak on
> >> http://squeakvm.org/mac/ are broken. I wonder where I can get the latest
> >> official release of the Squeak Mac VM? The latest release in
> >> http://squeakvm.org/mac/release/ is 5.7.4.1 from March 2011.
> >>
> >
> > Esteban Lorenzano is the official maintainer of the Mac VM. Esteban, can
> > you provide status on this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >